A distinction should be made between small scale copying for free, and large scale copying for financial gain.
That was how the original "fair use" precedent was set, and described in the AHRA. Small scale copying between friends was covered under fair use, large scale copying for selling unlicensed copies was illegal. The problem is that the Internet introduces a third type- large scale copying not for profit. Both sides of the debate are now trying to treat this new category in terms of the existing two- sharers by arguing that it's not fundamentally different from making a copy for a single friend, and publishers by arguing that its effect is not fundamentally different from selling bootleg movies on a streetcorner. But both of these positions are wrong. It's something entirely new.
A natural monopoly occurs when a market is structured so that it is not possible for more than 1 firm to operate profitably in it. Public transportation is a good example of this (when was the last time you saw a city with two competing bus services?). It's a concept that has nothing to do with this article, please use it properly.
Sturgeon's Law says this will never happen. However, the ITMS will give you the ability to cherrypick only the things you want to watch instead of paying for a full cable subscription.
You cannot "solve" creativity by throwing more resources at it; advancing technology will never change that fact.
(Care to give us an example of what you will deign to watch, so we can understand why you pooh-pooh one of the best shows on TV right now?)
No, this is a revolution. It's IPTV backed by a major company that really believes in it and studios that produce content a lot of people want to see. All Apple needs to do now is position a Mac model for PVR duty, more so than the new iMac is already, and wait for high-end broadband to spread some more and then they're horning in on Netflix and Tivo (and cable/satellite) territory all at the same time.
The killer app for this, just like it was for the music store, is buying that one episode you missed last week. If you care about the story more than the video quality, it's worth it.
They've already greatly expanded their collection. Within minutes of launch, the store had only the current season of Lost and only the first episode of season 1. Now they have the entirety of season 1 and the new episode that aired this Wednesday is also posted.
This model already exists- it's exactly how the stock market works. Whedon could switch over to this method any time he wanted by holding an IPO and taking Mutant Enemy public.
#1: Absolutely not. If you think teachers just regurgitating what they're told to teach is a problem today, removing tenure would make it a hundred times worse. Tenure is what allows teachers to exert control over what happens in the classroom and to avoid being bound to someone else's agenda. This is why ID is being legislated into classrooms, because you can't just order them to put it in the curriculum.
And besides, it's incompatible with your point #2. If a kid fails a class, who gets to decide if it was because he couldn't handle it or because the teacher was incompetent?
EverQuest is several years old, so you can't really call it "state of the art". Half-Life 2's characters really do look as good as the ones on the boxes (neglecting the fact that your monitor is probably 80-100 dpi and the box printing is an order of magnitude higher).
FMV isn't gone, it just isn't prerecorded video anymore. Prerendered video disappeared because with the advent of the Pentium, the Playstation, and the N64 systems and game engines became powerful enough to do noninteractive animation sequences that still held the player's interest.
Yeah, the exact same thing happened to my A60 about a year ago. It could be recovered by whacking it like the AC said, but that stopped being effective earlier this year, so I gave up and upgraded to an A80.
The problem with this is the same as the problem we always point out in anti-piracy schemes- as soon as *one* botnetter figures out a better automated method, it's distributed over the net and they all have access to it. It's like evolution, only the selection criteria are whose creator gets arrested and whose keeps "innovating".
It could also be a demographic/branding thing. They'd much rather have you send your friends the link than the actual file, then they can record the hit.
This wasn't done with the sword, the longbow, the cannon, the rifle, the machine gun, the tank, the airplane, the atomic bomb, or any other weapon ever invented. Why start here?
The critical difference being that the choice to give in to that impulse is entirely in the buyer's hands, which is not true in a real bait and switch scenario.
That's like saying "Why does an OS have to take up so much disk space? All it needs to do is run programs". While technically correct, it's so general as to be useless in a practical situation. The same is true of laws- while they do share something like that as a fundamental basis, they have to be written down and made specific so that the decisions of law enforcement can be consistent and fair across similar situations.
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A distinction should be made between small scale copying for free, and large scale copying for financial gain.
That was how the original "fair use" precedent was set, and described in the AHRA. Small scale copying between friends was covered under fair use, large scale copying for selling unlicensed copies was illegal. The problem is that the Internet introduces a third type- large scale copying not for profit. Both sides of the debate are now trying to treat this new category in terms of the existing two- sharers by arguing that it's not fundamentally different from making a copy for a single friend, and publishers by arguing that its effect is not fundamentally different from selling bootleg movies on a streetcorner. But both of these positions are wrong. It's something entirely new.
The technology has absolutely nothing to do with LCDs beyond being intended for similar applications.
A natural monopoly occurs when a market is structured so that it is not possible for more than 1 firm to operate profitably in it. Public transportation is a good example of this (when was the last time you saw a city with two competing bus services?). It's a concept that has nothing to do with this article, please use it properly.
Sturgeon's Law says this will never happen. However, the ITMS will give you the ability to cherrypick only the things you want to watch instead of paying for a full cable subscription.
You cannot "solve" creativity by throwing more resources at it; advancing technology will never change that fact.
(Care to give us an example of what you will deign to watch, so we can understand why you pooh-pooh one of the best shows on TV right now?)
I wasn't too impressed with MirrorMask. Visually and aurally it's very nice, but the story would be better off as an adventure game.
No, this is a revolution. It's IPTV backed by a major company that really believes in it and studios that produce content a lot of people want to see. All Apple needs to do now is position a Mac model for PVR duty, more so than the new iMac is already, and wait for high-end broadband to spread some more and then they're horning in on Netflix and Tivo (and cable/satellite) territory all at the same time.
The killer app for this, just like it was for the music store, is buying that one episode you missed last week. If you care about the story more than the video quality, it's worth it.
They've already greatly expanded their collection. Within minutes of launch, the store had only the current season of Lost and only the first episode of season 1. Now they have the entirety of season 1 and the new episode that aired this Wednesday is also posted.
This model already exists- it's exactly how the stock market works. Whedon could switch over to this method any time he wanted by holding an IPO and taking Mutant Enemy public.
#1: Absolutely not. If you think teachers just regurgitating what they're told to teach is a problem today, removing tenure would make it a hundred times worse. Tenure is what allows teachers to exert control over what happens in the classroom and to avoid being bound to someone else's agenda. This is why ID is being legislated into classrooms, because you can't just order them to put it in the curriculum.
And besides, it's incompatible with your point #2. If a kid fails a class, who gets to decide if it was because he couldn't handle it or because the teacher was incompetent?
EverQuest is several years old, so you can't really call it "state of the art". Half-Life 2's characters really do look as good as the ones on the boxes (neglecting the fact that your monitor is probably 80-100 dpi and the box printing is an order of magnitude higher).
FMV isn't gone, it just isn't prerecorded video anymore. Prerendered video disappeared because with the advent of the Pentium, the Playstation, and the N64 systems and game engines became powerful enough to do noninteractive animation sequences that still held the player's interest.
Yeah, the exact same thing happened to my A60 about a year ago. It could be recovered by whacking it like the AC said, but that stopped being effective earlier this year, so I gave up and upgraded to an A80.
The problem with this is the same as the problem we always point out in anti-piracy schemes- as soon as *one* botnetter figures out a better automated method, it's distributed over the net and they all have access to it. It's like evolution, only the selection criteria are whose creator gets arrested and whose keeps "innovating".
I'll try to comfort my Powershot with this here vast pile of cash.
Just remember, if you feel a building pressure in your ears, drive west as fast as you can!
It could also be a demographic/branding thing. They'd much rather have you send your friends the link than the actual file, then they can record the hit.
This wasn't done with the sword, the longbow, the cannon, the rifle, the machine gun, the tank, the airplane, the atomic bomb, or any other weapon ever invented. Why start here?
Hopefully it will go into the scientific community and then onto the open market, where it can be used by any party for any purpose.
The critical difference being that the choice to give in to that impulse is entirely in the buyer's hands, which is not true in a real bait and switch scenario.
If you're not an iPod owner, you're stuck without the ITMS.
You may have thought you were joking, but this won an Oscar.
I don't think he's too keen to duplicate the "run by organized crime" and "half the racers die each lap" parts of the pod race either.
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That's like saying "Why does an OS have to take up so much disk space? All it needs to do is run programs". While technically correct, it's so general as to be useless in a practical situation. The same is true of laws- while they do share something like that as a fundamental basis, they have to be written down and made specific so that the decisions of law enforcement can be consistent and fair across similar situations.